Law and Order DOC: No Wine before its Crime

Gary Thomas
Features
10 min read
How would Sherlock Holmes deal with wine crime? After all, the famous detective definitely appreciated fine wine. In the very first Holmes story (“The Sign of the Four”) he drank not only red burgundy from Beaune with lunch, but old Hungarian Tokay and three glasses of port after dinner, and

Wente “Morning Fog” Chardonnay

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
A lovely, perfumed nose opens with baked apples and white flowers. Apple and pear lead on the palate, with florals, minerality, and lively tropical fruit on the mid-palate and finish. Clean, crisp, and refreshing, this would pair beautifully with fried fresh-water catfish. Highly Recommended. 90 points. DBH WHO: Wente WHAT:

Wente “Eric’s Chardonnay”

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Fresh cut apples and apple pie mix on the nose. This unoaked Chardonnay is loaded with tropical and citrus fruits, with a steel backbone. Green apple, pineapple, and lemon zest are followed with softer guava and mango. Lemon zest lingers on the finish. Drink with poached sole. Highly Recommended. 91

Susana Balbo Signature Torrontés

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Aromas of apple and wood char flow up on the nose. Apple comes out in waves, from Honeycrisp to Granny Smith and back again, with wood smoke, char, and Meyer Lemon underneath. This is a smoking wine, loaded with smoke and fruit, drink it outside, on a breezy porch, with

Sullivan Family Vineyard Couer de Vigne

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Aromas of tobacco, baking spices, black cherry and cassis come out on the nose. It is silky and extracted on the palate, leading with flavors of blackberry and black cherry baked in a pie, followed by black currant, tobacco, and mocha. This is round, soft, opulent, layered with rich, elegant

Ridge “Lytton Estate” Petite Sirah

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Plummy dark fruit aromas, tobacco, and smoke arise from the glass. It is huge, even flamboyant, on the palate, with juicy black fruits, blackberry and elderberry, smoke, the darkest chocolate, and vanilla, all kept just barely in control by firm, structured tannins. Drink with marvelous wine with equally marvelous local

2013 Rotari Brut Trento DOC Blanc de Blancs

Becky Sue Epstein
Wine Reviews
1 min read
A delicate yet substantial sparkling wine. After the first fermentation, this wine is finished in the bottle, as they do in Champagne. The wine is also made with chardonnay grapes only, as is Champagne’s “blanc de blancs.” But this sparkler is produced in the north of Italy, in the Dolomites;

Murrieta’s Well “Small Lot” Muscat Canelli

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Aromas of grapefruit peel, orange blossom, and white peach waft up from the glass. Peaches are dominant on the palate, orange blossom and lemon peel add complexity on the mid-palate. Peach lingers. This is a lovely wine, loaded with stone fruit and florals. Drink with fresh rainbow trout. Highly Recommended.